There would be packs of awkward young men with scruffy facial hair and the occasional woman.
Playing there last year reminded me of why I was so comforted by music as an awkward young man.
In part, this reflects Porter's amused condescension toward the comparatively awkward young woman whose work she admired.
Clumsy, awkward young woman meets a mysterious domineering businessman called Mr Grey and develops a submissive relationship with him.
I enjoy his gentle poking at his younger self as a slightly awkward young man who really didn't know the ways of the world.
A shy, awkward young woman, she adores her wealthy, brooding husband, Maxim, with whom she lives at Manderley, his estate in Cornwall.
A shy, awkward young woman, she is in Monte-Carlo, working for an elderly socialite, when she meets Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter.
"What you will see, for the most part, are dirty, unshaven, often crude young men and stringy-haired awkward young women who cannot attract attention any other way".
The psychiatrist who assessed Adam, Robert King, recorded that he was a "pale, gaunt, awkward young adolescent standing rigidly with downcast gaze and declining to shake hands".
Many had seen Mr. Church blossom over the course of decades from a gangly, slightly awkward young minister to an authoritative yet avowedly down-to-earth leader.
That meeting was scarcely less awkward: Thackeray was startled when the quiet, awkward young woman took him sharply to task over several aspects of his work.
